We give out a LOT of bookmarks here at Brazos, and we are always looking for new ideas for their design. This spring we’re asking kids to lend their artistic expertise to our annual Bookmark Contest! Download the...
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FeaturesApr 8th 2019Emmalea Russo’s G is doing several things at once.
By employing a hemispheric division, creating borders reminiscent of a hem, the poems’ form resembles, on one side, a raised garden bed. On the...
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Features, Kids ArticleMar 29th 2019We’re big fans of Emily Duncan’s debut YA Slavic folklore-inspired fantasy, WICKED SAINTS here. Laura G has a blurb for it featured in the current kids’ issue of INDIE NEXT. And I found it such a fun page-turner that...
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FRIDAY, APRIL 19TH -- 7 PM
San Francisco, the 1970s. A disgraced professor takes an office in an old downtown building to plot his return. But he is distracted by the sounds coming from the next room, the office of a psychiatrist. He overhears the therapy sessions of a young lesbian who is in search of her adoptive family. Enraptured by the sound of her voice and obsessed with her story, the professor takes up the patient's quest as his own and discovers the disturbing truth about her origins. As he sends each new revelation to the patient---disguised as correspondence from an adoption agency---she is energized by the information, but finds herself unmoored from everything she thought she knew about herself. With ferocious intelligence and enthralling, magnetic prose, Ellen Ullman's By Blood is a dark and brilliant novel about connection, identity, history, and the terrible desire to influence another life.
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Staff Picks
One of today's most insightful critics and music writers turns his attention to a legendary and beloved hiphop group--A Tribe Called Quest--as a way of understanding not only the golden age of '90s rap, but the shifting sands of American culture at a transitional moment and his own life as well. A stunning, brilliant and heartfelt work from a writer quickly becoming a voice of a generation.
This masterful novel is perfect for fans of Virginia Woolf and Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Winner of 2018's Booker Prize, MILKMAN Is an intense, stream of consciousness novel that takes place during the 'troubles' in Ireland, although no place (or character) is actually named. The narrator, a young woman, is slowly taken over by a strange person known simply as 'milkman'. In a society teeming with poverty and threatened by imminent violence, Anna Burns creates an entire language, showing the subtle ways a person's life can suddenly belong to someone else. Reminiscent of A GIRL IS A HALF FORMED THING, MILKMAN is by turns sly and comical, a book that belongs in its own category altogether.
Though best known for his films--masterworks like Gates of Heaven and The Fog of War--Errol Morris is a hell of a writer too. The Ashtray, his third book, is a philosophical inquiry into the work of Thomas Kuhn, the famed pop academic with whom Morris takes serious issue (some of this may be personal: Kuhn once threw an ashtray at grad student Morris' head, thus sparking the title). Best about this book? It feels just as kaleidoscopic as one of Morris' documentaries, blending different modes (photographs, interviews, histories, recollections) to make its argument: in short, its process is just as important as its point. It's a worthy addition to Morris' astonishing body of work.
$16.95
An allegorical wonder from 1950's Uruguay. A woman attempts suicide on the eve of her 30th birthday, but instead of dying she becomes hyper-aware of her surroundings and wanders the woods and village outside her apartment. The sight of her form throws the village into chaos, as they are forced to confront the rocky religious morality and misogyny their lives are based on. Definitely an underrated feminist classic -- good for fans of the satirical cult fave HERLAND, or the comically dark prose of Djuna Barnes.
In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, National Book Award-winner Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America’s “first white president.”
Quips & Quotes
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people –– the beauty within themselves.
-- Langston Hughes